Newsmakers: Liza Minnelli, Naomi Campbell
By Nicki Gostin, Marc Peyser | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Apr 10, 2006
Liza Minnelli's legendary 1972 concert "Liza With a 'Z' "--now restored--is on Showtime and is out this week on DVD. Minnelli sat down with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin.
Tell me about "Liza With a 'Z'."
Campbell, Soup to Nuts
Six years ago, Naomi Campbell enrolled in an anger-management course. It's time for a tuneup. New York police hauled the supermodel from her Park Avenue penthouse last week and booked her on charges of assaulting her housekeeper. The weapon was reportedly Campbell's jewel-encrusted cell phone, which sounds funny until you remember she chucked a phone at an assistant in 1998, in which case it sounds like a nasty habit. Campbell knows a thing or two about perp walks--she dressed for the occasion in a plush white poncho with frills just low enough to hide her handcuffs. In court, she made two pleas: not guilty, and could she
please
keep her passport. She's set to travel with Nelson Mandela. "Surrendering her passport would not only be unfair to her," Campbell's lawyer told the judge, "but unfair to the children of South Africa." Lucky kids--the judge let her go.
Marc Peyser
Charity Cases: After Angie, Everybody's a Do-Gooder
Between the Babies
and
Brad,
Angelina Jolie
keeps up her efforts as humanitarian heroine. Hot on her heels, though, are some not-so-usual suspects.
KEVIN FEDERLINE
Say what you want about Mr. Spears, but at least his heart seems to be in the right place: he recently cut 10 inches off his hair for the children's charity Locks of Love.
JESSICA SIMPSON
She praised Angelina for the spotlight she's shone on international adoption, and Simpson says she now plans to adopt as well.
BRAD PITT
We all know about Pitt's globe-trotting with Angie for good causes from Kenya to Haiti. Now he's narrating a PBS special on global public health, "Rx for Survival."